Why the Guardian is going down the pan!
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redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Particularly terrible article in the last couple of days from her explaining how Starmer is right to attack socialists (excepting her of course).
I'll raise a glass when she shuffles off this coil.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I‘ve kind of got a soft spot for the everyday banality of Chiles. That some kind of lumpen ordinary bloke gets to do what he does rather than a smug cunt from the dinner party set.
(anticipating butchers or someone will be along in a minute to point out he’s private school, PPE at oxbridge and the son of a baron or something)
(anticipating butchers or someone will be along in a minute to point out he’s private school, PPE at oxbridge and the son of a baron or something)
ouirdeaux
Caring, Understanding, Non-judgemental Type
Good thing he only went to the University of London, then, assuming that this doesn't take away his qualifications to be a lumpen ordinary bloke. Just think -- had he done PPE at Oxford (no such option at Cambridge), he'd have been damned as a dullard, but with his credentials in order, he can be safely dreary.
steveseagull
Well-Known Member
The face eating leopards have arrived!
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
No mention of the number of jewish people expelled from the party under Starmer in that letter. Very non-partisan.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
What the fuck is this, claiming on anecdotal evidence that 'Gen Z' are less prepared for technology in the office than Millenials? ‘Scanners are complicated’: why Gen Z faces workplace ‘tech shame’
The main evidence is that they don't like printers and scanners. Nobody has ever liked printers and scanners in the office. All he's describing is young people coming into the workforce, and discovering like everyone before them that printers and scanners are complex and often shitty bits of tech.
The main evidence is that they don't like printers and scanners. Nobody has ever liked printers and scanners in the office. All he's describing is young people coming into the workforce, and discovering like everyone before them that printers and scanners are complex and often shitty bits of tech.
Oi, I put this on the other thread to make people feel better about being old.
No. Why not have someone ordinary who can write something interesting instead of his offensively banal dross.
If you had read the article you would understand that it's really really important for some reason.Has anyone looked at it today? There is a story in there, straight out of the sun, about bikini tops
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Please enlighten me, tell me that it is not just click bait.
Really, really important.
Also I can't wondering whether the owner of the bikini top in the accompanying picture can work a scanner.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
I have never wanted to open a guardian link less than that one, especially on a work pc.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Russia-Ukraine war live: China and Belarus call for ceasefire; Ukraine says no decision yet to withdraw from Bakhmut
Joint call amounts to endorsement of Beijing’s peace plan issued last week; bloody battle over key eastern stronghold
Classic Grauniad misprint in the sub-heading!
Thaw
Aye like, so it is.
Did she forget to write the article?
www.theguardian.com
What fresh misogynist hell is this? Why a new ‘maid’ cafe is causing a ruckus | Arwa Mahdawi
I assumed an establishment where young women dress as maids and perform submissively would be a den of depravity. The truth may be more complicated, writes Arwa Mahdawi
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
Grauniad meet Beeb thread...
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Grauniad meet Beeb thread...
The ‘how dare you invoke the Holocaust’, is particularly mendacious in response to Linekar as that’s not what he even did. And yes, it’s shit.
If you really want to upset yourself, check out the explosion of far right content (back) on YouTube, including the ‘stop the boats’/‘don’t house immigrants in hotels’ protests. We have brownshirts all over the country freely intimidating people and freely sharing their actions on mainstream social media sites. The 1930s comparison is correct, and the former crisp salesman has every right to make it.
Of course the likes of Mr Rodent (wonder if he posts here) don’t like Jews very much, and this is obvious to anyone outside of the niche, if multi-factional, bunch of nobs that were running the Labour Party until early 2020, and are an absolute gift to actual Zionists/Tories/etc.
I know my third paragraph/point doesn’t bother you (well it bothers you that I’m making it, it doesn’t bother you that your politics are helping the enemy) because your righteous anger about ‘respecting people’s identities’ and ‘standing up for the marginalised’ isn’t genuine, it’s a coping strategy to manage your distress and to steal attention and solidarity from those who are far more marginalised that you, me, or anyone else who posts here.
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
You have lost me utterly tbh
I don't really know anything about this twitter account as I'm not on twitter, just look in occasionally, although I seemed to recall this one being reasonably sound, and well, this particular comment certainly summed up the Grauniad article.
I won't condone any anti-semitic stuff if they've made it though. And given that I have pointed out anti-semitism on the left, including criticising Corbyn over that dreadful painting, and that I'm not even a Labour voter, I don't know what you are getting at.
I've already posted elsewhere on the appalling rhetoric being used by the government, and more than aware of what is happening, not just now. And having a Polish grandad, and knowing some of the horrors he experienced, I'm more than conscious of history also.
I think people here that know me offline, know my posts are open and honest, and as I've been politically active over the years, my anger of many injustices genuine. So, I've really no idea what you're saying here at all.
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Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
Don’t attack the decent people here ffs.
splonkydoo
Well-Known Member
A nose ring, a bicycle, a Radiohead album: I’m becoming a total cliche – and I quite like it | Moya Lothian-McLean
My scorn for convention hid a pit of insecurity. I was just another urban millennial, and never as singular as I imagined, says Novara Media editor Moya Lothian-McLean
NovaraxGuardian collab:
"This is just one of a series of drastic U-turns I’ve made in recent months that have significantly undercut my previous conception of what sort of person I am. I’ve gone from seven years of declaring that I would never get on a bike in London, to being an annoying cycling evangelist.
I finally moved to an area of the city that I had circled for ages but said I would never live in, for fear of being a cultural punchline. I got the tattoos I promised my mother I wouldn’t. I DJ. On dates with men who work in policy (new), I fiddle with silly little rings on my fingers (also new) while nursing a fresh lime and soda – which I historically labelled “disgusting” – because I don’t really drink alcohol now, and the taste is refreshing, actually. I woke up one day and started eating peanut butter. And nuts in general. Also tomatoes. I’m having a fringe cut in. All my “nevers” have fallen by the wayside.
These superficial changes, minor as they seem, represent the dissolution of certainties I had built my - supposedly – unique selfhood on. We define ourselves as much by what we are not as by what we are – at least I did. I’m not the sort of person who would go here, suit this, enjoy that. Except now it appears I am."
errrr.....i think it's just called getting out of your mid 20's, and moving on with things a bit...
ska invita
back on the other side
hah thats a cracker - middle class angst in full display... on the burden of becoming a fully fledged guardian columnistA nose ring, a bicycle, a Radiohead album: I’m becoming a total cliche – and I quite like it | Moya Lothian-McLean
My scorn for convention hid a pit of insecurity. I was just another urban millennial, and never as singular as I imagined, says Novara Media editor Moya Lothian-McLean
this the punchline
"In retrospect, I realise, I had been unconsciously devoting a large amount of energy to negative choice, a concept I’m borrowing and adapting from sociologist Eva Illouz’s 2019 treatise, The End of Love (by way of a viral Paris Review essay). In the book, Illouz examines at length ...."
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I always knew George Monbiot was a fucking idiot, but seriously? "I once admired Russell Brand"?
www.theguardian.com
I once admired Russell Brand. But his grim trajectory shows us where politics is heading | George Monbiot
In an age of distortion, public figures have powerful tools and a responsibility. This is an object lesson in how that can go wrong, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
I think it's more important he's at least calling this dangerous fool out. Brand seems to think, in a conversaion with fucking Steven Crowder, that the only hope politically lies within the "alternative right".I always knew George Monbiot was a fucking idiot, but seriously? "I once admired Russell Brand"?
I once admired Russell Brand. But his grim trajectory shows us where politics is heading | George Monbiot
In an age of distortion, public figures have powerful tools and a responsibility. This is an object lesson in how that can go wrong, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
No-one who's paid the slightest attention to Brand's career (I generally avoid him, but I'm aware of him) would be surprised by anything in there. I used to excuse him for having had a horrible, horrible childhood but he's rich enough to afford some therapy now so no excuses for his lunacy.
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LDC
On est tous des pangolins
I always knew George Monbiot was a fucking idiot, but seriously? "I once admired Russell Brand"?
I once admired Russell Brand. But his grim trajectory shows us where politics is heading | George Monbiot
In an age of distortion, public figures have powerful tools and a responsibility. This is an object lesson in how that can go wrong, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Was wondering where to post that article, could go in a few threads; anti-vax loons, alt right, etc.
There was a brief period when Brand was making some of the 'right noises' politically and was managing to connect with a bunch of people outside the small left activist scene, so some people did find this was interesting and exciting. IIRC there was a bit of a tussle between that and some people saying he was too much of a horrible character (misogyny etc.) to ever listen to, was a bit of a classic identity politics row at the time it seemed.
Anyway, good Brand is now being exposed like this, Monbiot's article is good I think, Brand is absolute fucking poison.
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